Hermann Pohlmann (26 June 1894 – 7 July 1991) was a German
aerospace engineer
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...
.
He was the principal designer of the
Junkers Ju 87 ''Stuka'', a
dive bomber used during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
, before becoming Deputy Chief Designer at
Blohm & Voss.
After the war, when the
Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB) was recreated in 1956, he was appointed Chief Designer and led the team which designed the
HFB 320 Hansa Jet
The HFB 320 Hansa Jet is a twin-engine, ten-seat business jet that was designed and produced by German aircraft manufacturer Hamburger Flugzeugbau between 1964 and 1973. The most recognisable and unconventional feature of the aircraft is its for ...
.
Published works
* Pohlmann, Hermann (1982). ''Chronik Eines Flugzeugwerkes 1932–1945'', Motorbuch. . The story of Hamburger Flugzeugbau and the Blohm & Voss aircraft subsidiary.
References
*
Amtmann, Hans (1988). ''The Vanishing Paperclips''. Monogram.
* Griehl, Manfred (2001). ''Junkers Ju 87 Stuka''. Airlife Publishing/Motorbuch, London/Stuttgart.
German aerospace engineers
Junkers people
1894 births
1991 deaths
Engineers from Hamburg
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